Elena Zagrebelnaya

Thank you for your link, especially the English translation.

The patient was receiving chemotherapy at the same time. It would be impossible to dissociate which treatment affected the progress of the disease.

It shows an example where practitioners of non-evidence based medicine (and others :)) can make mistakes of cause and effect.

Chemotherapy is a very aggressive treatment. It has immediate effects of severe nausea and weight and hair loss. One can imagine that in sheer desperation a patient may seek alternative methods even when told the effects are temporary. After seeking an alternative and the symptoms receding the alternative practitioner may claim success but the symptom relief would have happened anyway.

I couldn't comment on your thyroid cases as there is no detailed history. When I mentioned that an example of a successful treatment of a non self-limiting disease would be useful, I should have said that a full clinical/biochemical diagnosis before and complete clinical/biochemical examination afterwards would be necessary. Otherwise the examples could be considered as anecdotes.